Jamie Hood > Quotes

“I'll always jump in the ring for the earnest, the cringe, the sentimental, the too much. I write for the messy bitches. I write for the girls who haven't given their grief language.”
― Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot: A Life

“there is no story of this country not founded in forcible vanishings”
― Jamie Hood, How to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany

“I wonder now if I've ever felt it, desire I mean, as in properly felt it, a desire of my own, and nothing to do with what I thought men demanded, what I believed I should perform, beyond sensations unfurling inadvertently in response to a stimulus. Where is the origin of my longing, what is it I want? Have I ever known?”
― Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot: A Life

“How can a woman made into meat speak?”
― Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot: A Life

“If only you could make out what it is inside you that draws these men your way—you believe you could really change, you could remake yourself in a safer image. Never seeing, as I wish you'd see, that there was nothing you did, nothing in you that earned it, that the knot was not yours for the unraveling because its origin exceeded you, it was in the rope being looped around your throat.”
― Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot: A Life